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Huskie possessed at the Beach

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Question
Our Huskie is a rescue dog.  We've had heard two months.  Around our survey, she walks perfectly along side you.  Recently, my husband and I have been taking her to the beach.  Once there, she goes wild......pulls, cries, jumps across my husband to me and goes not settle.  My husband has taken her on his own and she does pull, but not to the extent when I'm there.  We're wondering would it have anything to do with me going?, or is it that she sniffs other animals being Spring(recently spade), or maybe just very excited that both of us are there.  Being a Huskie makes us wonder if the "wild" in her is just letting out, when we're there.  At home she is very docile, timid and well behaved.
Please help, as other dog walkers think our pup is uncontrollable.  Been to puppy school so this charactistic is unusual.  We known the leash techniques.  Please help as our walks are cut short down there and I need to get in shape before bikini season.  Ya, right.  Thanx.

Answer
Two months isn't a long time for a newly rescued dog to build confidence in you and her new home, so some of this could be uncertainty in a new situation.  Or, it could simply be her usual response in the great outdoors.  Hard to say, and there's little you can do to figure out "why" she's doing it, but lots you can do to modify her behavior.
When you say that you know "the leash techniques", I wonder what you mean.  I don't use leash corrections when I train dogs, so if you have been doing that, and want to continue (even though, from what you say, it isn't working), then you may be better asking someone else on the list to help you.  But, one thing I will say is that your dog sounds as though she is anxious/excited and not able to exert any self control, nor are you equipped to calm her down with the present tools in your training tool box.  There is a really cool book, by Emma Parsons, called "Click to Calm".  It was originally written for dog aggressive dogs, but the protocol for gaining a dog's attention and having it focus on the handler is a good one for all sorts of problems - her protocol is very easy to follow, and I hear nothing but good things from people who have used it faithfully.  I would highly recommend hands-off training for a hard pulling dog or an out of control dog - when you pull on a leash, they tend to pull back (or ahead, as the case may be).  You can get Emma's book at Amazon, I think, but for sure dogwise.com will have it.  Good luck.  By the way, training takes time, so you can eat a few more eclairs before you worry about the bikini:-))